A Useful and Remunerative Job: The National Labor Relations Act

Donald Stabile

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Political Economy of a Living Wage, 2016, pp 139-159 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The NLRA was a first step in a movement from the voluntary cooperation of the NIRA to government regulation of business. This chapter will examine the NLRA with its aim of establishing collective bargaining as a way to provide workers a useful and remunerative job, a key element of a living wage. It will investigate the extent to which a living wage influenced the NLRA, including in the debates in the Congress, and will describe an argument that collective bargaining was the best way to attain a living wage. It will also review business criticisms of the NLRA to highlight how those criticisms overlooked the living wage elements of the NLRA.

Keywords: Bargaining Power; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; National Labor Relation Board; Labor Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32473-9_4

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